Dear participants of our follow-up meeting to the green China trip in Berlin on 14 and 15 December,
So that you can get an insight into the current planning status of our Berlin meeting, I will update the planning status here over the
next few weeks, depending on what new developments arise. Jürgen asked me not to plan as many visits for our meeting as in China,
but to leave more space for social encounters. Accordingly, I have only included the points that the majority of everyone or
almost everyone wanted.
Below you will find two sections: The first section contains
A. Information
1. Program (schedule) of our meeting in Berlin (as of November 6, 2024)
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Sat, December 14, 2024 | until 11:00 am | Getting to the hotel |
| 11:25 am - 12:00 pm |
Walk from the hotel to the Chinese restaurant |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Eating at the Chinese Restaurant Ming Dynastie |
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2:00 pm - 2:20 pm |
Walk to the Humboldt Forum
(1600 meters alternatively by
public transport
5
and 5) |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | guided tour of the Silk Road in the Humboldt Forum |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | — free time —
time not yet planned |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | dinner at the hotel |
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
| cabaret "Distel"
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Sun, December 15, 2024 | 08:00 am - 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am - 1:00 pm | Debriefing of the China trip,
reports, pictures —in the conference room in the hotel (conference room 5 on the
3rd floor)
(experiences and reactions after the trip
in contact about own reports of the trip, political assessments,
suggestions and expectations for the meeting in the Foreign Office
the next day, etc.) — with coffee break including pastries
from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | lunch at the hotel |
| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | — at your own disposal —
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| 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm | Travel by public transport to FriKo (PallasT),
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| 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
Berlin Peace Coordination (at PallasT, Goebenstrasse 1, Berlin) |
| from 4:30 pm
| Departure for the vast majority of the group
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2. Costs of our meeting in Berlin per person (as of October 25, 2024)
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hotel | Single room (incl. breakfast) | 109.00 € |
| Double room (incl. breakfast)
| 159,00 € |
Chinese restaurant | Lunch on Saturday flat rate per person | 30,00 € |
conference package in the hotel
| are included in it
- Lunch (Lunch (including mineral water) on Sunday
- Dinner (including mineral water) on Saturday
- coffee with pastries/cake
- Water and apple juice (unlimited on Sunday mornings)
| 55,00 € |
conference room in the hotel
| (Room with seating for 24 people) for Sunday morning
300 €
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per person |
18,75 € |
Invitation from Jürgen Kurz and Dou Yaling
| Allocation of
2 overnight stays, two conference packages 2 x Chinese restaurant 2 x conference room and 2 x "Diestel"
| 37,32 € |
cabaret "Distel" | | 36,00 € |
3. Details about the cabaret "Distel"
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Links Prices for the individual places
and
on the right, in purple, the seats,
I have already bought for us
(rows 3, 4 and 5).(29.10.2024) |

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If you would like to choose where you would like to sit during the performance in the theater,
please select your seat in the Diestel Theater here
(as of November 10, 2024, 8:30 p.m.)
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4. Suggestions for designing the non-planned free time
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If you are still looking for ideas on how to use the time not planned for joint activities to
explore Berlin, you will find a few suggestions below, for which I would like to thank Thomas Krings
in particular. Most of the following tips start in the wider area around the hotel (some of them are
neighboring districts).
Guided tour:
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Hidden courtyards in Mitte — Berlin.de
Self-organized tour with your own smartphone:
- City map — Your final journey —
Walk the deportation route: from the site of the former synagogue, which was used as a collection camp,
to the freight station from which around 30,000 Jews were deported to concentration camps and ghettos.
- Route 3 — Berlinische Galerie — Friedrichstraße —
New splendor for the divided boulevard
- Between Snake and Swan —
City in Your Ear —
Audio Walk about Life in GDR Monuments
- City Guide Berlin —
Mitte-Schritte — City in your Ear —
Audio Walk through Berlin's Historic Center
Tour without technology:
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11 Berlin walks for art lovers | visitBerlin.de — Sophie-Gips-Höfe: GG. Art.5 —
Article 5 of the Basic Law guarantees freedom of the press, freedom of information and freedom of opinion.
further suggestions:
- Anti Kriegs Museum — It is interesting because
of its history and the personality of the museum operator. However, it remains a stance
against warlike violence and destruction.
- Topography of Terror Gestapo, SS and Reich Security
Main Office in Wilhelm- and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße
- Jewish Museum Jewish History and Present in Germany
- German Historical Museum in the Berlin Armory
- DDR-Museum An interactive journey into a bygone state
If you are already in Berlin on Friday, December 13, 2024 and would like to go to a concert, you will find a
concert at 8 p.m. in the Philharmonie in the Great Hall
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Concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Andris Nelsons.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (2nd version from 1890) will be
performed
or on Sunday, 15 December 2024 in the Philharmonie in the Great Hall
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Concert with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin The
performance includes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 55 »Eroica«
B. What do I have to do?
1. Reserve a hotel room
In order to secure a place to stay overnight in the hotel, I ask you to reserve a room in the
Dietrich-Bonhöfer-Haus as soon as possible (if you have not already done so).
To do so, please visit the
Dietrich Bonhöfer Haus website and book the room there for the overnight
period you require (e.g. Saturday, December 14, 2024 to Sunday, December 15, 2024).
To facilitate allocation to our group in the hotel, please indicate that you are Gruppe Wiendl - VA_1668 heard.
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ATTENTION NEW! (As of October 29, 2024, 9:30 a.m.)
Please no longer reserve the room via the Bonhoeffer House website as the website now shows different prices.
Please write an email to info@hotel-dietrich-bonhoeffer.de (
info@hotel-dietrich-bonhoeffer.de ) and request a booking confirmation or call them on 030 28467-0.
I have already stored your names there and you will then receive the agreed prices.
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2. transfer further costs of the stay
Since I assume that we will all accept the invitation from Jürgen and Yaling in Shanghai and also attend the cabaret,
I ask that you transfer the additional costs to the following account within the next two weeks (no later than
November 13, 2024 ):
Recipient: | Eckard Wiendl
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IBAN: | DE53 6001 0070 0017 3777 04
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Purpose: | follow-up meeting to the China trip in Berlin
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For all those who do not want to contribute to the costs for Jürgen and Yaling or the cabaret, please let
me know as soon as possible so that we can make up the shortfall. If there are any other issues that are not covered
in this letter, please let me know as soon as possible!
The transfer amounts are as follows:
When booking a single room (or without overnight booking) |
conference package (catering) | 55,00 € |
conference room | 18,75 € |
Chinese restaurant | 30,00 € |
Cabaret Diestel | 36,00 € |
levy for Jürgen Kurz and Dou Yaling | 37,32 € |
Total amount to be transferred: | 177,07 € |
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When booking a double room (or without booking an overnight stay) |
Conference package (meals) (2 x 55 €) | 110,00 € |
conference room (2 x 18,75 €) | 37,50 € |
Chinese restaurant (2 x 30 € ) | 60,00 € |
Cabaret Diestel (2 x 36 € ) | 72,00 € |
Contribution for Jürgen Kurz and Dou Yaling (2 x 37,32 €) | 74,64 € |
Total amount to be transferred: | 354,14 € |
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In the hope of seeing you all again in Berlin, greetings Eckard
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